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4 Tht News-Review, Roieburg, Or Thun., Jon. 19, 1950 Published O illy Exoept Sunday l y tht News-3evie Company, Inc. Irani u cans ilin , M I. IJW, M Ibi tut Ill I.mMt, Off. Hi Marck t, ISIS CHARLES V. STANTON gm EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor fije"' Mamger Member of the Aeeoolated Preee, Oregon Newspaper Publlshtrt Asioolatlon, the Audit Bureau of Clroulatlona liriili b7 WSST-HOLUD CO., INO. .men la Njw terk, CkleMh . . tia kraaaliea. Lat 4nfalaa laatlla. ParllaaS. Si. Laala. .. . .. u . , ... taaa at m.nihi St.M. Ibt.a Kaaiaa M.M 1 CM, Carrlar-rar raar IK.M (la ad'aaea). Ijm tkaa at , ft naalk ll.se oamaa .uraiao t " -" -.' ataataa If-W. M,aa aiaaiaa ax.io IDEAS ON TAXES By CHARLES. V. STANTON We hope this column never becomes so Innocuous that it fails to draw criticism and expressions of divergent opinion. We realize that many people do not agree with our beliefs. We respect their right to express their views as freely as we do our own. For that reason we have endeavored to keen open to all people the "Letters" column of The Newt- I. eview and frequently have printed therein messages from correspondents extremely critical of our views. We do not resent criticism. In fact, we welcome letters pertinent to important issues, regardless of whether the correspondent s ideas are similar or opposed to our own We dislike having our statements deliberately twisted and distorted. But if the critic misquotes or misinterprets through error, that Is a different matter. Anyone is entitled to an honest mistake. We therefore credit Mr. W. J. Mathews of Sutherlin with an honest error in the opening paragraph of a letter in which he says: ' Last month I wrote you a letter on the shocking totals of the property tax. You poked fun at me and Mr. Shoe maker at the time, seeming to think that our property i taxes were email matters compared to. federal demande. jvVe did not "poke fun" at anyone. We did find it in congruous that so much criticism was raised concerning local taxes, with no expression of resentment against the far more extravagant federal taxes. Having just recently completed our income tax report, we are more impressed wijth the incongruity than ever. But our statements were directed at a CONDITION and NOT at an individual or Individuals. After the jolt of paying our income tax we still feel that complaints about high taxes are misdirected when confined to the local picture, although we grant that local tax economy should never be permitted to get out of hand. , ; But getting back to Mr. Mathew's letter : He continues : Other writers, as well as yourself, have suggested that a sales tax, one-half for sohools and one-half for welfare, might be a remedy.-; This situation Is I serious matter, I contend. One farm owner I know took In 12,500 last year and his tax was $1,000. Another suoh farmer with Income of $1,500 paid $500 ' taxes. When you oonalder buildings to be repaired, fences kept up, and depreciation, the oondltlon of many farm people la really desperate. A roof now costs more than a whole building In other yeare. However, thle eame situation exists In California. Local taxes are Just as exhorbltant, and they have a sales tax, too. I, therefore, wish to suggest that the county rural aohool board take over the budgets of the looal dlstrlots and allow Just so muoh for each student and compel the looal boards to adjust their expendlturee. If they can't adjust, then make them consolidate. It le not fair to us who . pay the bills that one high school be allowed $500 to (700 for each bonaflde student and another $350 or $400. There le a standard cost for grade children, another for high school. Let's see that every d lit riot has a square shake and the taxpayers a little protection. We can agree with Mr. Mathews fully that the property tax load is too heavy. His suggested solution, however, would be impractical, we fear, because no two districts have the same costs. It costs about the same amount, for instance, to employ a teacher to instruct 10 pupils as to hire a teacher for a classroom with 25 pupils, but the ex pense per student is much different. Some districts cannot be economically consolidated. Transportation is a factor, Some districts, buying supplies in large quantities, get a lower rate. It would be extremely difficult to make an equitable allowance on a per student basis. Unquestionably all waste and extravagance should be , trimmed from our school budgets, if any exists. But we are faced with a much more critical problem. Our schools must be expanded to twice their present capacity within the next few years. Property already is strained to the break ing point by taxes. Although we believe a sales tax is the most practical method of lifting some of the present and future tax burden off property, we're perfectly willing to accept some other financing plan, providing it distributes the load equitably. It'll Be Interesting to See How This Turns Out & In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) Grants Past Man Gtrs Prison Term For Larceny ,'BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 1! UP) Eugene P. Tuter, 46, of Grants Pass, Ore., was sentenced to not more than 15 years in the State penitentiary here after ie pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Tuter arrived In Belllngham, passed a bad $61 check at a drug store and was arrested within nine hours December 17. Also pleading guilty was An drew Allen Ross, 31, Tillamook, Ore., who was charged with de sertion and non-support of his two children. His sentencing was deferred until Friday by Superior Judge Ralph O. Olson. Sheriff Partly Cleared In Negro Deputies' Case PORTLANa Jan. 18 -.TV-Charges that Multnomah county Sheriff Terry D. Schrunk violated the State Fair Employment act have not proved valid. Labor Commissioner W. E. Klmsey said last night He said the case li still open, but that the situation as charged by two Negro deputies Is not a law violation. The Negroes asserted the sher iff put them on elevator duty at the jail although tliPlr civil serv ice ratings entitled them to more desirable work. Schrunk explained that one deputv had the elevntor Job un der Sheriff Martin T. Pratt and was mnde a plainclothes vice of ficer by Sheriff M. L. Elliott. Schrunk said he reassigned them In the course of a number of per sonnel shifts. Manpower Strength Of U.S. Now At 1,555,000 WASHINGTON UP) The manpower strength of the na tion's armed forces totaled 1.555. 200 at the end of 1949. the de fense department announced. nils was more than the combined armed services strength proposed In the Presi dent's budget for the year start ing July l. The strength or tne services on Dor. 31 was: Army-43.-inO, Navy 415.600, Air Force 415.000. Marine Corps 51,200. the snow had been broken by some passing cars. It had evi dently followed the track- in. It was sitting on its haunches, Herb says, and was wiggling Us long ears in perplexity, as , If working out a problem. I pre sume that wiggling Its ears may give a jackrabbit the same men tal support that humans get out of scratching their heads. After a few minutes of this, the Jack evidently reached a decision. It laid its ears down along Its back and TOOK OFF FOR THE SOUTH at high speed. 1 think its decision was prob ably sound. . a OH yes; I knew there was some thing else before tackling politics. New York has had a change In the weather. The temperature has nose-dived to 50 ABOVE. From all I've been able to gather, they've been going around back there In their nylon shirts and their shorts, fanning themselves. I don t think I m a Dartlcularlv vindictive sort of person, but the cockeyed summer they've been having back on the East coast has griped me no end. I'm glad to see 'em have to put on at least their sport jackets to ward off this unaccustomed chill. a a YOU may wonder why we news papers carry comparative tem peratures from over the country. We continued It even back in the paper shortage days when we were leaving out advertising thus proving beyond auestton that we set a lot of store by these things. I'll let you in on a little secret: We go on printing these tem perature tables so that In win ter we can find some country that is COLDER THAN OURS and In summer some place that is a lot hotter. aaa Let's see. Isn't there a fable about the fox that lost its tall and undertook to convince all the other foxes that they too should get rid of their tails? It wouldn't be so bad to be without a tall, Brc'r Fox reasoned, If nobody else had a tall. aaa I'M never quite sure that if we were ALL as poor as church mice we might not be quite hap py about it. It's seeing some bloated plutocrat who has more than we have that upsets us. aaa OUR friends, the Fai- Dealers (nee New Dealers), are as suring us, now that another cam paign year Is imon us. that In a few years more, If they are kept in power, the poor will all be rich and the rich will all be poor. At any rate, that'j a better scheme than making us all rich. Then we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. aaa SHUCKS! I Just looked at the clock and there Isn't time enoueh left to plunge Into a dissertation on the growingly complicated political situation that Is stewlne ud In Washington. Isn't that a shame! Thomas Jefferson i-ecord. ed planting spinach In nil gar den In 1811. By Viakntit S. Martin fjr I could say, It's snowing here. But you probably would say, "So what? It's snowing here, too. What we're Interested In now Is when will It stop." So I'll tell you about the wild ride our neighbor's red hen took on the high stake-body of their big truck. Mrs. R. S., unaware that a hen had settled down early for the night on such a perch, came out of the shed at a fast clip, intending to avoid what happened previously to his truck. Slick Iron pipes as a cattle guard offer little help to trac tion. ' " i' His wife and daughters must have the hen, valiantly and wild ly teetering .on the high side; they rushed out on the porch to signal the' news. Mr. S. got over the cattle guard all right but stuck this side of it. Evident ly he caught on to the fact that he had a passenger hitch-hiking a ride Involuntarily. At any rate he reversed . . . shot back across the guard and never stopped till he was back fn the shed again. He reappeared without the hen who had never lost her balance or determination in her wild ride. This time he made the road. Our six hens have quit coming down to the house to see why I opened the back door. They stay under the hen house in the dry with food and water handy and go to bed through sheer boredom about two hours early. The snow did something to tbem, however, beside discourage their roaming. They lost their feathers about the time of that real cold snap we had last fall, and were sorry looking objects. They feathered out while It was warm. Now they have begun to lay again! The birds from the woods have no need of us when the ground Is bare of snow but now they don!t wait for me to close the door before they pounce on what ever I put out for them. Wheat from the hen's barrel, cereal from a box in the pantry which they especially enjoy, scraps, any thing I think of; one or another of the many varieties will find it good. But their delight, and mine after I saw them enjoy It, was a chopped up apple of which the beauty had been only skin deep. Did that disappear! When, one thinks how much mankind owes to our bird neighbors, it is really a privilege to meet their need with scraps, and a few pennies' worth of food, isn't it! TROUSERS MEASURED Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press Health Intranet By Deb Addison on Klamath Falls Herald and News It says In Washington that sup porters of the administration's compulsory health insurance pro gram mapped plans for a long range campaign to get It adopted piece by piece, if necessary. So they're going to give is so cialized medicine if it kills us. It so happens that the death rate in 1918 was the lowest In history. Figures probably will show that 1!M9 was a healthier year yet. That's the way it's been going year after year. The death rate in 1948 was 9.9 deaths per thousand persons. Of these deaths about half were brought on by heart ailments and cancer. If socialized medicine had something to offer toward solving the problems of heart trouble and cancer I might be Interested. There has Just been a serious Illness in our family. It's OK now. Virus pneumonia used to take a lot of lives. It doesn't any more. It has been solved by Individuals working in research laboratories. They've discovered new drugs. Individual doctors have learned how best to use them. Individual nurses have given them to sick people. The sick people breathe easily again. Many of the scourges of a few years ago now are harnessed through better medical know ledge, through the hands of fa mily doctors. These advance ments In medicine have come about through the will to find out, of individuals. The dignity of the Individual man Is a first principle of Christ ianity and of democracy. Let's not put the narcotic hand of a government bureau over the lives of the people connected with medicine, who through Individual efforts have added so much to our well being. When some of my folks get sick t want to be able to rout out a family doctor (in the middle of the night if necessary) who will go all out on the case until the thing Is licked. And when it's over, I don't want to have to pay anybody but the doctor and the nurses and the people who pro vided the medicine and the hos pital bed. I don't want to pay the people of the bureau of com pulsory health insurance, for telling the doctors and the nur ses how to do something they know how to do better themsel ves. If you want to strike a blow for better health, tell your rep resentative to kick out any and Baltimore Rule On Zoot Pants Draws Criticism BALTIMORE, UP) If your pants are zoot you get the boot Pegged pants, It seems, are strictly taboo at some Baltimore recreation centers. And teen -agers who sport the too-tight trousers are setting up a howl with some support from the old er generation. It's known as the ruler treat ment. Show up with trousers that are less than. 17 inches around at the cuffs, and out you go. No dancing for cut-down pants fan ciers. The measure (no pun intend ed) was brought to the attention of the city council by Mrs. M. J. Greeley. She claims it's driving teen-agers Into the streets. She told the council In a letter that one youth was barred from a city recreation center because of "the width of his trousers and the cut of his coat." His pants, she said, had been knocked down to less than 17 inches. Other measurements on the zootometer, according to 'teen agers are "semi-drape" (16) and really if U4). Harold S. Callowhill, superin tendent of the Recreation bureau. admitted that the ruler treat ment was being used at some centers at the request of young sters there. "Extreme dress is all socialized medicine schemes and then contribute what you can to the cancer and heart re search funds. . ' Chinese Fund Keeps Students At O. S. C. CORVALLIS, UP) Twenty, one Chinese students, whose funds from within China have been cut off, will be able to con tinue their courses at Oregon State college anyway. The state department at Wash ington, D. C, advised the college that $15,918 will be given to the students. It comes from a $4,000 000 Chinese fund. permissible in other centers where such a dress is customary In the neighborhood," he said. Extreme dress, he said, leads to poor behavior. Mrs. Greeley contended, how ever, that any such ruling do feats the purpose of the centers. The council took the question under study. Southern Oregon Trip Called Off By Morse PORTLAND, Jan. 19 UP) Sen. Wayne L. Morse, who had planned a Southern Oregon tour this weekend, has shifted to ap pearances in the Willamette Val- i ley. He will speak in Portland Sat urday, Eugene Monday and Tuesday, and Salem Wednesday. The trip to Southern Oregon, canceled because of weather, will be made later. DOORS $6.95 to $33.00 PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 1(4 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phona 242 Help Douglas County In 1950 Deposit your money with us and it will remain In DOUGLAS COUNTY and go to work for you. Investigate our bonk-by-mail plan, safe deposit boxes, . night depository service and other banking conveniences. Douglas County State Bank Homs-Gwned, Home-Operated Member, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Picket Flour 251b. sack, special .... 1.5.9 23c Log Cabin Syrup lil. aL.. Armour's ineeSe mild cheddar, 12-oz. Pkg CnSCO A bargain!..... 3 lbs. 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